Mouth Cancer Action Month aims to raise awareness of mouth cancer and save lives by promoting the values of prevention and early detection. The campaign is about making everybody more aware and throughout November, we are inviting new patients to call and book a free mouth cancer check-up where our dentists will discuss the risk […]
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We are currently accepting new NHS patient registration for dental treatments
At our comfortable state of the art dental surgery in the centre of Bathgate, Iristonhouse Dental Practice provide NHS dental services to local residents from Bathgate, Armadale, Livingston, Blackburn and all over West Lothian. We offer a full range of NHS Dental treatments and services and treatment is free for:- everyone aged under 18 those […]
New Dental Nurse
The practice is pleased to welcome new Dental Nurse Michelle to the team. Michelle is GDC registered with 7 years’ experience and has a very calming and caring personality which our patients really enjoy.
Practice Inspection
The practice was recently inspected by Health Board inspectors. All NHS practices are subject to a practice inspection process and must undergo an inspection by the Health Board every 3 years. The inspection focuses on many aspects, including staff training and development, patient care, decontamination of instruments, cross infection controls and radiographic protection. Iriston House […]
Hands on CPR
The team at Iriston House Dental Practice recently completed our annual CPR training. Occurrences of medical emergencies in dental practices are thankfully rare. However, it is important to make sure that our team is prepared for such situations if they should arise. The team are taught how to deal with different aspects of medical emergencies […]
Infection Control and Decontamination
Effective decontamination and infection control is reliant on each team member knowing what they should do and having the skills to put this knowledge into practice. In-Practice Training The in-practice training session has been developed to help support all NHS practices, in Scotland, in implementing current infection control and decontamination guidance. The training session which […]
Festive Arrangements
The practice will be closed over the festive season and an emergency out of hours service will be available for dental emergencies and toothache. For details of the out of hours service please call the practice on 01506 652135 or contact NHS 24 on 111 24th December – CLOSED 25th December – CLOSED 26th December […]
Medics Against Violence Ball
Mr Chandra and Liz recently attended the MAV ball with their partners. Medics against Violence (MAV) is a Scottish Charity founded in 2008 by three Scottish Dental Surgeons, Their aim is the prevention of serious injury and death particularly among the young people of Scotland; they aim to change attitudes to violence in Scotland through education and awareness […]
Children in Need Fundraising
The staff of Iriston House had a Mad Hair and Face Day to raise much-needed funds for Children In Need. We set up a Justgiving page and raised £70. Mr Chandra kindly donated a hamper which we raffled to raise more funds. Along with donations from our very generous patients, this raised a total of […]
The Lady Boys of Bangkok
The team had their yearly outing to Edinburgh last week. This year we went to see the Lady Boys of Bangkok. It was a great show.